[governance] Agenda Africa IP Summit - 5th Africa Conference on FOSS and the Digital Commons

[Nnenna]

Hi people

I would rather reserve my comments on the IP summit for now.  But suffice it to say that since South Africa adopted an Open Standards/Open Source policy, there has been a renewed effort on the opposite direction.

 
Let me use this opportunity to inform of the effective holding of the 5th African Conference on FOSS and the Digital Commons - http://www.idlelo.net

Kindly support in whichever way you can.

Best regards

Nnenna



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 From: Louis Pouzin (well) <pouzin at well.com>
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Sangeeta Shashikant <sangeeta at twnetwork.org> 
Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2012 1:27 PM
Subject: [governance] Agenda Africa IP Summit
 

Hi Sangeeta, and all interested colleagues in this summit, 

It's quite clear that this summit is massive propaganda and lies by a cartel of predators. While there are very few possibilities to influence this juggernaut agenda, it's certainly worth spreading solid information to stimulate the perception by the participants and the media of the delusions instilled by the cartel.

Therefore a letter to the summit organizers is certainly a proper initiative. Presumably they are not going to be much impressed, although they could reply with some lip service. Actually, the real target is African people. They need hearing and reading other visions than the cartel spin. But is there adequate material for that purpose ?

For a readership not necessarily well seasoned in internet and intellectual property, a text should be short, easily readable, and explicit on messages to be conveyed. The proposed letter does not seem to be well targeted to a large readership. It could be recomposed in 1/3 of the words and carry the same messages in shorter sentences.

A preliminary useful step would be to write down in one line each essential message that should not be missed.

Cheers
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On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:58, Sangeeta Shashikant <sangeeta at twnetwork.org> wrote:

Dear All, 
>
>Attached is a draft agenda of the Summit. It is an updated version  of what is available on the US government site. 
>It is a pretty twisted agenda on IP. 
>
>
>If you are interested to protest against this Summit, pls do sign onto the letter we have drafted to WIPO. See below
>
>Sangeeta
>Third World Network
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dear All,
>
>
>The US government is planning to hold in April an Africa IP Summit in
>partnership with Japan, France, and WIPO. South Africa is hosting this
>meeting. The private sector (ICC, BASCAP,Pfizer, Eli Lily et al) is
>sponsoring this meeting.
>
>
>The main focus of this Summit is enhanced IP protection and
>enforcement particularly on counterfeiting and piracy. Clearly this is
>a platform for US, Japan France to promote the TRIPS plus plus agendas
>seen in ACTA, TPPA, EPA etc, and this Summit will be promoting more
>anti-counterfeiting bills in Africa. Many of these provisions are
>likely to have a problematic impact on access to medicines.
>
>
> If you are interested in more details see the US government site
>http://www.cldp.doc.gov/programs/Africa-intellectual-property-forum.
>The Commercial Law Department Programme of the US department of
>commerce is organising this summit.
>
>
>We think it is important to raise some concern over this event. So we
>have drafted 2 letters. One addressed to the World Intellectual
>Property Organisation WIPO (see below).We have also drafted similar letter 
>to South Africa missions in Geneva. 
>
>If you are interested to sign on to these letters, pls send me the
>name of your organisation and contact details to
>sangeeta at twnetwork.org or ssangeeta at myjaring.net
>by Friday, 3rd February.
>
>
>Regards
>Sangeeta Shashikant
>Third World Network
>www.twnside.org.sg
>
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